May 30, 2025

A conversation with JAKS Automation's Adon Portman

32 minutes

Few things bring me as much excitement and gratitude as working with a dedicated, close-knit team, working towards a common goal. I graduated in 2015 holding my engineering physics degree with a passion to successfully design and build engineering solutions, learn new things, challenge myself, and meet amazing people along the way. Specifically, my passion covers mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering. My favorite projects, such as building an autonomous vehicle to compete in the NASA lunabotics mining competition as part of the Queen’s Space Engineering team, integrate a large variety of engineering components including control, automation, and mechatronics engineering.

Throughout school I worked in the reforestation industry to fund my education. I spent a total of 5 seasons working as a foreman, treeplanter, and various other bush-work jobs. This was an incredible experience, with unforgettable people, that emphasized the importance of teamwork and commitment. Working as a foreman was an extremely rewarding position, where I was able to train, teach, and supervise employees.

I love meeting new people and learning new things, so please feel free to connect with me and send me a message!

I found you on a project that you did for CFIN, Canadian Food Innovation Network.

Welcome to edition #140 of the podcast. I welcome Adon Portman from JAKS Automation.

Adon, tell our audience a bit about you and your team.

I would ask about you, how you got involved/started in automation, the team,

Typical automation projects, CFIN, challenges, perfect fit projects?

What kind of work are you looking for?

How you find that work?

Some of the challenges for startup automation companies

What advice would you offer to startup system integrators like ourselves?

What mistakes have you seen other system integrators make that we should be mindful of?

What markets do you think are adopting automation?

Have we forgotten to talk about anything?

How do our listeners get in touch with you?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adon-portman

https://www.jaksautomation.com

If you would like to get in touch with us at THE robot industry podcast, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or you can use [email protected]

Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing produced today’s podcast and I would like to thank my team: Chris Gray for the music, Geoffy Bremner for audio production, my business partner Janet and our sponsor Ehrhardt Automation Systems.

Warm Regards,

Jim

Jim Beretta

Customer Attraction & The Robot Industry Podcast

London, ON

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